This summer, a garden at the corner of Manhattan and Adams streets in Manchester will look greener thanks to the Manchester Beautification Committee and a grant from the Sprout Fund. The neighborhood garden, started a few years ago by the committee with some help from Wal-Mart, covers nine city lots...

The Northside Chronicle has paired with Manchester Academic Charter School to feature the works of students in grades 6-8. This month, 5 seventh graders will share their family's holiday traditions. You can also find the selected work of four additional students in our December 2010 print edition. <...

Few existing Northside institutions can trace their history back to the years before the Civil War. Time, economic changes and population shifts have often caused the decline and disappearance of what were, in their day, thriving organizations and programs. That is why the story of the Metropolitan ...

This obituary was written by Mrs. Ralph's family and reprinted with permission. Betty Jane Ralph departed from this life quietly in her home on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 after an extended illness. She was born in Pittsburgh to Lee and Florence McCormick and educated in the Pittsburgh Public School System...

Over the past year, Manchester has celebrated many milestones on its way to rebranding as a thriving, desirable community, including major progress on two housing projects designed to bring new residents into the neighborhood. Soon, though, the Manchester area will find itself the location of a deve...

The Manchester Bidwell Corporation received a grant in October from Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield to support a new training program at the Bidwell Training Center. The $36,000 grant will go to the purchase of an electronic medical record system that students will use in the Electronic Record Medic...

The Northside Chronicle has paired with Manchester Academic Charter School to feature the works of students in grades 6-8. This month, seven sixth graders will share their family's holiday traditions. You can also find the selected work of four additional students in our November 2010 print edition....

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Things keep looking up for Manchester. After a successful house sale last fall and the groundbreaking ceremony for a new housing development in January, community officials announced the creation of as many as 100 new jobs in the first half of this year. At a community meeting on March 29, Mancheste...